Windows 10 Display Scaling
Discussion and suggestions relating to Display Scaling aka Compatibility Scaling Mode
This is truly a miserably broken and problematic feature of Windows 10, especially for users of software such as Global Protect or other similar software.
It applies to people running dual monitors. It specifically impacts people that run dual monitors that are physically different sizes, or people using a laptop and extended display option onto a physically larger monitor. It can impact people with one physically small monitor (like a netbook display), and a desktop LCD monitor that both have the same native display resolution.
Windows 10 DOES NOT have an option to globally disable this nasty feature.
Instead you basically have two choices:
1) the miserable option of trying to disable it on a per-application basis which some users report being unable to do
2) change the desktop resolution to something that is not a direct pixel for pixel match with your high resolution display for both of your monitors. Resolutions with a width of 1280 seem to work well and globally disable Display Scaling.
Option #2 has the benefit of always working, but has the detriment of making everything seem really big and images or text may not be as sharp and crisp as some users may like.
It WOULD BE IDEAL of the assholes at Microsoft simply allowed Display Scaling to be completely disabled. But like so many things in Windows 10, you, as the end user, NO LONGER HAVE ANY CHOICE. (Which is why I recommend that you never run Windows 10)
Display Scaling on High DPI Devices in Windows 10 causes problems with some software such as virtualization software or remote desktop software
The only way that Microsoft has provided users with to turn this feature off is to disable it by right-clicking on the shortcut of any one of the programs in question, selecting Compatibility and turning display scaling on high DPI devices off, one program at a time. This can be quite a tedious task and there is absolutely no way a person can disable this feature for all programs on a Windows 10 computer, at least not a Microsoft-provided way.
Option #1 can be accomplished sometimes with a right click, but otherwise requires editing the windows registry and creating manifest files for each application.
A moron named Kevin Arrows claims there is a global workaround, however he fails to comprehend the meaning of global. If you read through his suggestion he claims that you can "disable display scaling on high DPI in Windows 10 for all programs" but his solution requires a per-application action and therefore is still cumbersome and misleading. If you have to do this for each application then it is not a global fix and provides no greater advantage than the method described by Microsoft.
For full disclosure here be aware that the author of this page despises Windows 10 and finds the vast majority of contemporary I.T. professionals incompetent mediocrity. The moment you reach a plateau of knowledge to where you become reasonably competent then you realize that you need to rid your life of Windows 10 and buy a Macintosh or run an alternative operating system on your PC. I mean, who in their right mind would run an operating system from a company that continually spies on you, is very much broken and unreliable as well as being the least secure contemporary operating system in the world? Windows 10 is truly perpetuated by clueless business executives and brainwashed tech graduates working for crap wages.
- Broken DPI Scaling on Mixed Resolutions
- Broken DPI Scaling on Identical Resolutions of different physically sized monitors
- Broken DPI Scaling on Laptop to Desktop Display spanning
The mouse cursor is not aligned with the active object being clicked. Mouse alignment or calibration wrong with dual displays. Mouse cursor off.
Windows 10 scaling default above 100% causing problems clicking applications or navigating web sites.
Settings custom scaling level -
- Click on Start Menu > Settings > Display
- On Display screen scroll all the way bottom and find “Advanced Display Settings” click on that
- On Advanced display settings screen scroll all the way bottom and find “Advanced sizing of text and other items” click on that
- Click on “Set custom scaling level” and make sure its set to 100%
- Click ok and Apply changes if you changed anything on that screen.
- Additionally, Right-click on desktop and select Display settings
- Adjust slider labeled "change the size of text, app, and other items" to 100%
